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An assessment of the limits of detection, sensitivity and specificity of three devices for public health-based drug checking of fentanyl in street-acquired samples

This is an academic paper that evaluates emerging technologies to test for the presence of fentanyl, including fentanyl test strips, a hand-held Raman Spectrometer, and a desktop Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer. Fentanyl test strips were found to be the most sensitive and specific and were also able to detect minute amounts of fentanyl in the sample. 

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An assessment of the limits of detection, sensitivity and specificity of three devices for public health-based drug checking of fentanyl in street-acquired samples
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Green, T.C., Park, J.N., Gilbert, M., McKenzie, M., Struth, E., Lucas, R., Clarke, W., Sherman, S.G. (2020). An assessment of the limits of detection, sensitivity and specificity of three devices for public health-based drug checking of fentanyl in street-acquired samples. International Journal of Drug Policy, 77, 102661.